Can you imagine how old the oldest person would be? Nearly 2,000,000 years old. Amazing? Not really if you consider how the officer in charge of printing that certificate did not bother to check the details prior to handing out the certificate to the next of kin. In a truly Malaysia Boleh fashion, errors can be continually found in most government documents.
Original news article can be found here.
SHE must have been the oldest human being before she died – if you believe the death certificate of this Malaysian woman.
It said she was 1,996,964 years old when she died on 23 Sep 1998. An entry for the Guinness Book? Not quite.
The Ipoh woman was actually 39 at the time of her death, but a ‘technical error’ resulted in the entry on her certificate, reported Malaysian daily China Press.
A Kota Tinggi native known only as Mr Mohan, who helped the family with the documentation, said that because of the error, her family had to show the Malaysian National Registry relevant documents to get a new death certificate.
He said: ‘Her date of birth, identification number and age were supposedly verified by the authorities before the death certificate was issued.’
Mr Mohan said there was a case in Kota Tinggi where errors were found on the death certificate of Ms Kasian Alias. Ms Kasian was born in 1976 and was 31 when she died but the date of death printed was 8 Oct 1966 – 10 years before she was born. The paper also listed her age as 90.
Malaysian Deputy Home Minister Tan Chai Ho told China Press: ‘The errors can be corrected at the National Registry. It’s not a big problem. We’ve also had the wrong religion listed in some cases. ‘Although we have state-of-the-art IT systems, they are still manned by humans and are thus not error-free.’
China Press reported that last May a Perlis woman was shocked to find out that she was ‘dead’ while she was processing some documents at the National Registry.
